This document provides guidance and tips for using various library resources such as databases, e-journals, books, and e-books to conduct research. It highlights specific databases like ProQuest and Web of Science that can be used to find articles, and notes that references and cited articles found within initial search results can lead to additional relevant sources. The document also explains how interlibrary loan can be used to obtain books and reports not held in the local library collection.

1. Database
Research
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Spring 2015
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Library Home Page http://www.lib.ku.edu

3. Where’s the stuff
Articles
e-Journals
Newspapers
Books
e-Books

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5. If you need articles
and are not sure of
the subject area, go
to a
multidisciplinary
database. Proquest
Research Library is
one of the best.
Click on P

8. An environmental journal

14. Here is the article
Just in case it was not found in our collection, remember you
can ask for it here and the library will get it for you and send
the article to your email.

16. PDF copy of article

17. Don’t forget the
references at the
end of the
article. These
are the print
sources the
author used for
research.

18. What we just did:
*Used a database, Proquest, to find an article using a keyword search
*Found citing articles
*Looked at the author’s References
One good article can bring several others to the research findings.
Let’s look at another really good database:
Web of Science

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22. Date change

23. An engineering
journal

26. What about Google Scholar?

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35. Books? And e-Books

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39. The report is available at
Anschutz Library. You can
request that it be sent to
Edwards Campus under
your name. (You need a KU-
ID card to check it out.)

42. The drop down
menu choice
you want for
this search is
“Retrieve from
Shelf”

44. e-Books

46. This method
sometimes works
very well and
other times it
takes several
screens of hits to
find what you
want.

50. Tip: Limit your search by
date if you want more e-
Books in the results list.

51. Does the library have a location
just for e-Journals?

53. This is the title of a
journal where we
found an article in
our search of the
Proquest database.

56. This PDF copy of
the document
offers links to the
References list at
the end of the
article itself.

59. Look at the different
formats offered for these
articles. Let’s take a look at
the “Full Text HTML”
hoping for some more
articles via the HTML
search.

60. HTML version of the
article allows for
hyperlinks that bring
the cited articles up
for your reading
choice.

64. Do contact
these folks if
you have any
problems
getting the
book that you
want. They are
very efficient in
getting what
you want to
you.

65. Questions?

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